O. R. Melling Quotes

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

You pay a price for everything in life.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

There's always a price for what you want.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Nothing comes without a price.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.